thread reminded me that many players like racial bonuses
When a game evolves there is always someone who is more affectionate to the old system than others. You can see this with sequels, new editions, adaptations and whatnot. To not change means to remain stale and never improve. Not all changes are for the better, that's sure, but we know that that's the goal, wether the idea fail or succeed.
Larian is our DM and they are adapting a game through an overly different medium. At the table I can ask my DM to change one thing to another, and Larian is simply that master that said yes.
Even without changing medium I'm sure that many people wouldn't play in a campaign dmed by me because I've a lot of Houserules myself, like giving advantage and disadvantage to interpretation, like ignoring busy hands for somatic components, like using potions as bonus actions and so on. You can't please everyone.
Edit: and all of this ignore the fact that anyways the floating stats are official rule for 5e, and the default for 5.5 (one D&D), so...
